All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

The world is a spinning die, and everything turns and changes: man is turned into angel, and angel into man, and the head into the foot, and the foot into the head. Thus all things turn and spin and change, this into that, and that into this, the topmost to the undermost, and the undermost to the topmost. For at the root all is one, and salvation inheres in the change and return of things.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.

When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.